August 23, 2023

Today I wanted to share with you this false albacore video from the 2019 season, in case you’re looking to catch an albie this year from the kayak! This footage was filmed the first week of September along the South Coast of Cape Cod. I am sure some of you sharpies will recognize the area. 😎 On

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Kayak Fishing for Albies
May 11, 2021

Tautog (also called blackfish) and scup (also called porgy) arrive in Cape waters during May and stick around throughout the spring, summer and fall. Fishing Cape Cod for tautog and scup can be a lot of fun! Both species fight well and are often caught in the same spots using the same baits. In the following video,

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Tautog & Scup Kayak Fishing | Cape Cod, Massachusetts
November 23, 2020

Back on November 7th I hosted a group of members from My Fishing Cape Cod for a live presentation, Q&A session, and online meetup.During this event I shared a video presentation which featured some of my favorite video clips from the 2020 Cape Cod spring fishing season. Content included squid fishing, tautog fishing, striper fishing and

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Live Presentation Recording: Spring 2020 Video Review
June 18, 2020

​All this season I have been having a blast filming Cape wildlife using a variety of different cameras. It’s been an eye-opening experience for me! Today I wanted to take a moment to share with you another quick clip that I hope you will enjoy watching.This past Tuesday I filmed with my drone a large school

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Spooking a Big School of Stripers in my Kayak
September 21, 2019

Ryan CollinsSeptember is a fantastic month for spotting ocean sunfish (mola molas) here on Cape Cod. Mola molas are one of the heaviest known bony fishes in the world, weighing as much as 2,000 pounds!Back on Sunday September 15th I launched my kayak in Cape Cod Bay and paddled about 1/2 mile offshore to where several

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Close Encounter With An Ocean Sunfish
September 9, 2019

Ryan CollinsSlow-trolling live eels is a super effective way to catch big striped bass on Cape Cod, especially during September and October. The intricacies of eel fishing are many, and there are lots of tricks to the trade. However, slow-trolling is a relatively simple technique to learn.In this post I’ll first explain the technique to you,

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Slow-Trolling Live Eels for Monster Stripers on Cape Cod
April 27, 2019

Ryan CollinsWith the Cape Cod saltwater fishing season about to kick-off, this will be the last “Costa Rica Saturday” blog post for quite some time. If you watched the roosterfish kayak video from last weekend, then you may of noticed how difficult of a time I had removing two sets of razor sharp treble hooks from deep

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Fishing for GIANT Roosterfish in Costa Rica from the Kayak
April 20, 2019

Ryan CollinsThis past winter my wife Lauren and I guided two awesome groups of MFCC anglers and their wives in Costa Rica.  We explored the jungle together, saw sloths and monkeys, and of course went fishing â€‹The fishing from the beach in the days leading up to this kayak trip had been unusually slow. However, when

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Roosterfish in Costa Rica | Insane Kayak Fishing
April 19, 2019

Ryan CollinsI’m happy to report I caught my first striped bass of the 2019 season this past Wednesday afternoon April 17th! I was fishing from my kayak on Cape Cod and was very surprised to find that one of the stripers was covered in sea lice.Sea lice are marine external parasites that feed on the mucus,

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My First Striped Bass Of The Year
April 3, 2019

Locations Cheat SheetDownload extra information about the locations and areas discussed in this seminar. Equipment Cheat SheetDownload the exact lures, tackle, gear and other equipment talked about in this seminar. Timestamps:00:01 – 05:23 – introduction to me, my family, and my upbringing05:30 – introduction to My Fishing Cape Cod07:53 – introduction to Lauren and “funny

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Cape Cod; A Fishing Wonderland [Full Seminar]
March 19, 2018

Ryan Collins In this seminar presentation I will take you through a full season of fishing on Cape Cod.  You will learn how and where to target big stripers, tuna, albies and other species from Cape Cod’s many inlets, bays, jetties, harbors, beaches, estuaries and of course the canal. This seminar includes more than 80

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How To Make The Most Of Your 2018 Cape Cod Fishing Season
September 14, 2017

Ryan Collins During September throughout Cape Cod & the Islands, small baitfish known locally as “peanut bunker” begin to move along the shoreline.These fish travel in large dense schools containing thousands upon thousands of fish. Needless to say the schools of peanut bunker often attract the attention of striped bass, bluefish, false albacore and sometimes

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Peanut Bunker Bass Blitzes Have Begun!